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While the Vertex 2 might have some larger peaks and troughs than the Kingston drive, it certaily has a more consistent read speed throughout its virtual platter.

Sandra

OCZ Vertex 2

Drive Score: 258 MB/s

Random Access time: 7 micro seconds

Kingston SSDNow 96GB

Drive Score: 220.15

Random Access time: 47 micro seconds

Here the Vertex shows a stronger drive score with a 38MB/s lead and a far improved random access time which gives improved gaming performance – like an SSD would have problems with that anyway – and better transfer speeds for lots of smaller files.